High on Ice, Story and Photos by Dan Weeks
A UNI instructor invents a new extreme sport in Cedar Falls and invites everyone to give it a try.

There it stands: a shimmering, crystal tower. A frozen waterfall. A spire of ice. That's if you look at it from the north side. From the south, it's just a grain silo. Eighty-five feet tall, built of concrete blocks with reinforcing steel hoops and a domed roof, it resembles any of tens of thousands of Midwestern feed towers-except for the feathery blue-white ice on the shady side...

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